7 Two hundred experts in government, education and industry gather at Harvard for the opening of the Computation Laboratory, a "modernistic, two-story structure" featuring the 51-foot IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.
FEBRUARY
6 The city of Cambridge installs parking meters for the first time, charging one cent per 12 minutes along Mass Ave., Brattle Street and Boylston Street (now JFK Street).
18 Dean Hanford suspends a College rule prohibiting personal solicitation of funds in the Houses and dormitories, allowing the Food Relief Committee to collect funds for relief efforts in countries including Greece, Poland and China. The campaign is supported by folk singer Pete Seeger '40, who gives a free concert in Emerson Hall two weeks later.
MARCH
8 Two black students are halted at the entrance of Club 100, a Cambridge social club, and asked to present "membership cards." Three weeks of student protest and picketing later, the owner signs a 126-word statement aserting that "race, creed or color" will not keep patrons out of the club.
APRIL
24 The College announces that veterans and non-veterans fared equally well academically in the fall semester, with 30 percent of veterans and 28.5 percent of non-veterans receiving a Dean's List average.
MAY
23 Final plans are released for Lamont Library, where "functional design will be the keynote." Construction of the library, which will be closed to Radcliffe students, is set to begin in June.
JUNE
5 Secretary of State George C. Marshall unveils the Marshall Plan as part of his address at the 296th Commencement Ceremony. SEPTEMBER 1947
18 As returning veterans flood college campuses across the country, Harvard enrolls the largest number of students in its 311-year history. College enrollment hits 5,600 as the House feel the squeeze of an all-time record influx. Housing is cramped, and the College again resorts to cots in the Indoor Athletic Building.
OCTOBER
3 The Crimson pride smarts as vandals from Boston University paint John Harvard with B.U. colors and burn their school's initials in 15-foot letters on Soldiers' Field.
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